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Friar Bellows · 09-06-2002, 03:23 PM

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Originally posted by Liquidrage:
<strong>I'm not saying the time dialation doesn't occur. I'm simply pointing out the fallacy in the twins story. When the twins are bought back to the same spot they are the same age. It is while they are appart they appear at different ages to an observer.</strong>

No! This is not true. The twin paradox is called a paradox because of the erroneous assumption that the experiences (from a kinematical point of view) of the two twins are indentical and hence when they are brought back together they should not have a different age -- but in fact they do have a different age. But their experiences are not identical, and when they are analysed in detail there is no paradox to be found.

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<strong>Obviously, I'm not capable of making up my own theories in physics so this viewpoint is something I've come accross several times in the reading I've done. I'll look for a reference later when I have more time.</strong>

Obviously, neither am I.

But I think you've misread or misremembered what you previously read. I urge you to read that link I mentioned earlier in this thread, here it is again:

<a href="http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/TwinParadox/twin_paradox.html" target="_blank">The Twin Paradox</a>

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